From May 26 - June 27 2006

Bucharest Biennale promote awareness and dissemination of the culture, particularly in the fields of the arts, by means of exchanges and cultural cooperation within Europe and beyond and is looking for strategies that would develop mutual understanding and offer insights from different perspectives.

BB programs promote the exchange of art and ideas through the staging of contemporary arts and work globally and locally, bringing together an international vision of art and cross-cultural exchange with a commitment to the community involvement and the enrichment of Bucharest's cultural resources.

BB aims to resolve the twofold problems of tradition and modernity, past and present, localism and global village, it strives to attain a balanced status between its aesthetic/artistic quality and popularity by overcoming the feeling of estrangement that the general public has towards the contemporary arts.

The Biennale is building a strong partnership between Bucharest - which is more than a city, it is a symbol of how political can be reflected in every aspect of life - and the Western Europe; it links to an universal problem - that does not take into consideration the geographical or historical context - the problem of resistance in daily life, of details and living as a way of living. BB is a structure able to transform the City itself into an ongoing workshop-cum-field of action.

Fundamentally, European culture has been the result of exchange - sometimes peaceful, other times violent - that have taken place between neighboring societies and between different social groups within a given state. These horizontal and vertical forms of cultural exchange occurred in many different manners: through imitation, assimilation, dissimulation, appropriation, through either mutual understanding or hegemonic dominance.

BB aims to encourage creativity of artists, public access to culture, the dissemination of art and culture, inter-cultural dialogue and knowledge of the history and cultural heritage of the European and extra-European people.
Its general purpose is to engender a shared cultural area by bringing people together while preserving their national and regional multiplicity and diversity.

ARTISTS:

Erik Binder
Eduard Constantin
Janos Fodor
El Perro
Rainer Ganahl
Katia Lombardi
Agent MC
Sebastian Moldovan
Pedro Motta
Ioana Nemes
Ilona Nemeth
Tatsumi Orimoto
Dan Perjovschi
Catalin Rulea
Janek Simon
Attila Stark
Aya Tsukioka
Wang Qingsong

VENUES

National Museum of Geology
Sos. Kiseleff, nr.2
Telephone: (021)650 5094
Open Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00 – 17.00
Artists: Attila Stark, Aya Tzukioka, Catalin Rulea, Eduard Constantin, El Perro, Erik Binder, Ilona Nemeth, Janek Simon, Janos Fodor, Rainer Ganahl, Sebastian Moldovan, Tatsumi Orimoto.

Botanical Garden
Sos. Cotroceni nr. 32
Telephone: (021)410 9139
Open Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00 – 18.00
Artists: Dan Perjovschi, Sebastian Moldovan

Faculty of Biology
Sos. Cotroceni nr. 32
Telephone: (021)410 9139
Open Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00 – 17.00
Artists: Ioana Nemes

Skateboard Park Herastrau
Opening of BB2
Entrance from Piata Charles de Gaulle (open air)
Artists (25th of May, 19.00): MC Agent (performance)

South Shop
Str. Cotroceni nr. 29
Telephone: N/A
Open Tuesday to Saturday: 10.00 – 17.00
Artists: Dan Perjovschi

National Museum of Literature
B-dul Dacia nr. 12
Telephone: (021)212 9652
Open Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00 – 17.00
Monday closed.
Artists: Aya Tzukioka, Ilona Nemeth.

National Center for Dance
B-dul Nicolae Balcescu nr. 2
(4th floor, Laptaria lui Enache entrance)
Telephone: (021)318 8676
Open Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00 – 17.00
Artists: Dan Perjovschi, Attila Stark, Erik Binder, Janos Fodor, Katia Lombardi, Pedro Motta, Tatsumi Orimoto, Wang Qingsong.

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INFO POINT BB2
B-dul Nicolae Balcescu nr. 2
(4th floor, entrance from Laptaria lui Enache)
Telephone: (021)318 8676
www.bucharestbiennale.org